How do I tell current temperature in Suunto 7?

[Kai Liu]

https://www.suunto.com/en-us/sports/News-Articles-container-page/10-reasons-to-enjoy-open-water-swimming-with-suunto/

This page says suunto 7 can do it, but I never see this feature.

[danklod]

Hello,
the another thing which I didn’t find is information for strokes and swolf but I guess that is planned for a some new version for Suunto 7.
Kind Regards
Danail

[isazi]

For temperature you need to install a third party app.

[Kai Liu]

@isazi Which one? I curious if the watch does not have such sensor how 3rd party app able to read the temperature, if the watch come with a sensor, then it should be in-built supported, this is such a great feature.

I see some 3rd party app but they are fake temperature, i.e. it reads from phone, or weather station, not from the watch

[isazi]

@Kai-Liu the watch has the sensor.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@isazi I am not 100% sure about that. I saw this thread looked at the specs and yes it states so.

But I remember from my own tests it didn’t have.

Or the component was hidden / not accessible from eg Aida64

[isazi]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos oh, a baro without temperature?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@isazi yes perhaps. A different component perhaps, OR just not a sensor that exposes the temperature interface. That said, regardless of how technically it is, if the watch is marketed as having one, that’s not good.

[Egika]

I am using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wachete.thermometer

It successfully reads the temp from S7

[Kai Liu]

@Egika is it accurate for you? It says 30C but the room temperature should be 26C. I guess because the watch itself is generating heat, and the sensor fail to compensate for that.

[iTomB]

@Kai-Liu
Very true. For me it is not accurate. It seems to measure watch temperature instead of the surrounding temperature

[Egika]

@Kai-Liu said in How do I tell current temperature in Suunto 7?:

@Egika is it accurate for you? It says 30C but the room temperature should be 26C. I guess because the watch itself is generating heat, and the sensor fail to compensate for that.

This temperature information is the battery temp of the watch. It might be a little above ambient - especially during charging…
So maybe it is not the best idea to rely on the data (have yet to try in water)